Rocky Point High School Artists Take Part In MLK Portrait Project

Press release from the Rocky Point School District:

Feb. 9, 2022

Rocky Point High School student-artists participated in a unique collaboration with the East End Arts Council.

The school’s National Art Honor Society students Alyssa Calderon, Tessa Cunningham, Katherine Elcik, Myla Mamolen, Madison Murphy, Kalena Prendergast, Emma Raicovi, Elena Ramos, Abigail Seplavy, Lisa Toman and Hannah Townsend were joined by student-artists Robbie Christensen, Samantha Friello, TJ Reice and Erin Weeks in the MLK Portrait Project, which honors the impact of civil rights leaders by working together in unity. The project tasked each student with creating an individual 12x12-inch panel that ultimately became a whole mosaic of images of Martin Luther King Jr. Art teachers Katerina Kyriakakis and Seth Meier played key roles in leading Rocky Point students in the process.

Every panel style is different, yet they all fit together. At the completion of the project, the portrait will hang in the high school, then be displayed in a public gallery, before being auctioned off to support the East End Art Council’s scholarship fund for art and music students. The MLK Portrait Project was created to engage talented student-artists across the East End of Long Island and to honor Martin Luther King Jr.

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